Technical articles for industrial IT and OT teams
74 articles on OEE, Modbus, OPC UA and MQTT, OT security, industrial data, edge computing and IT/OT project planning.
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MTBF and MTTR: how to calculate them and where they mislead
Definitions, formulas and a worked example for MTBF and MTTR, plus the pitfalls: what counts as a failure, what counts as repair time and why averages hide long outages.
OEE worked example: from shift data to a loss waterfall
Follow one 8-hour shift through the OEE formula: availability, performance, quality and a minute-by-minute loss waterfall you can reproduce in the free calculator.
Design an energy-monitoring pilot around one question
Choose a useful meter boundary, separate demand from consumption and connect the result to a production decision.
An OEE pilot is only as good as its counters
Commission an OEE data path by agreeing on time boundaries, ideal cycle time and the meaning of a good part.
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